A Brief Introduction of Mr Zhu's Garden
Started to be built in the end of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty(1908), the Zhu's Family Garden was a large scale private mansion constructed by the Zhu Family in Jianshui. It covers an area of more than 20,000 square meters with a gross floor area of over 5000 square meters. The mansion has 214 total rooms and 42 courtyards of various sizes. Inside the mansion, there are different buildings like ancestral hall, Xiulou (the rooms for unmarried daughters), shops, waterside pavilions ,flowers hall, lotus ponds, bamboo groves etc. The courtyards and halls are arranged in neat orders and the halls are intricately designed to offer different views. Moreover, the numerous doors, windows, eaves, beams, columns, bases, rails, and screens all add to the beauty of the mansion. The scene changes as you walk around, and you may find too many beautiful thins to take in. All scenes are telling us the stories of ancestors and the Zhu's Family Garden is also called "the Grand View Garden of South Yunnan".
The mansion integrates many features of Chinese traditional dwellings, such as delicacy of Anhui houses, magnificence of Shangxi duildings and elegance of Suzhou gardens. It is not only concrete, but also spiritual;not only historical, but also cultural. When you step into the mansion, it will awake both your memory and your poetic flavor. Its history has gone but the influence is still on.
As a competitive tourist destination in Yunnan province, Zhu Family Garden has received thousands on thousands tourists at home and abroad after renovated for several times along with development of tourism in reform and opening-up. In recent years, some movie makers and television producers poured in from all parts of the country. A domstic expert ever commended upon his investigation, it has equal value by compred with Courtyard of Family Qiao, a famous ancient mansion in Pingyao County, Shanxi province.

Adress: 16 Hanlin Street, Jianshui County, Yunnan Province
Visitor Information Hotline:0086-873-7667115

Building Material Markets

1. Furniture:
as everybody knows, Lecong is the biggest furniture wholesale market in China, maybe even in the world.
For the right side, like Shun lian North ，Shun lian South，most furniture are for personal decoration. Louvre sells most expensive but good quality products, and Shun lian North sells the middle price one , and Shun lian south is comparably cheaper.
Then for the left side, most buildings sell the hotel furniture and office furniture.
Besides, in Guangzhou, it also have big furniture mall like MACALLINE and Ji sheng wei bang， but furniture there are usually very expensive and best quality.

2. Sanitary products
For sanitary products, like faucet, closestool, wash basin, there are three places in Foshan, one is China ceramic city，sells the best quality and brandy things, like TOTO. Then Yi Mei Jia sanitary market is the biggest one, and have many choices for basin and bathtub, price there is middle and also have some famous brands there. Another one is Shi wan sanitary market ， but most shops there are shut down, only left about 10 shops there, but price there is lower than another two places.

3. Kitchen and wardrobe
In Lecong furniture market, there are also many shops selling wardrobes. But if you want to customize your design, there are two places you can go. One is also near Le cong furniture market, which specialized in lighting and kitchen. But most are brandy products, like OPPEIN, so price is expensive.
Besides, you can go to the NAN AN ROAD building material market， there are also many shops can customize wardrobe and kitchen

4. Lighting
As everybody knows, LECONG is famous for furniture, then another city—Zhong shan is good for lighting, Gu zhen is about 2 hours from Guangzhou, and you can find the biggest lighting market there
But Guangzhou also have 4 lighting markets, one is called TAI GU near bei jing road, it is the biggest one in Guangzhou, if you don’t buy many lighting, you can go there, most shops also have factory in Zhongshan, but price there is higher than Guzhen.
Another comparably cheaper one is called YUE JING hardware market， lightings there is cheaper.
And another called AN HUA lighting market is almost shut down now, but it will reopen in july.

5. Tiles
If want to wholesale tiles, Nan zhuang  in fo shan is the best choice.

6. Curtains
For curtain, you can find in NAN AN building street, but the HAI YIN cloth market(海印布艺城) is more specialized in curtains.
Big machine and facility
1. Industrial use machine
If you want to buy generator, solar system products, fire equipment, the YUE JING hardware market  can satisfy what you need.

Hotel and Restaurant Facilities

1. There are three hotel markets in Pan yu, Guangzhou, one is called Nan tian hotel market， this one is older and much cheaper one. and quality is very good
Another one is called Xin Ji Sha Xi this one is newer than another two, and price is medium.
And the third one also called Sha Xi older and bigger than the second one. But products in these two are similar, because many shops have branches in both place.
In these three markets, you can buy the cooking facility, BBQ facility and cake mixing facility, freezer. etc. and you can also buy the tableware in these markets.
Besides, opposite to the Sha xi hotel market, there is a very big tea market and big kid’s bicycle market.

2. Home appliance
For electrical appliance, Hai ying electrical market has all kinds of products, like TV set, DVD, alarm facility, TV, etc.

Fashion Products

1. Clothes
Near Guangzhou railway station, there is a big area full of clothes, like Bai ma Yi ma  but these buildings are very expensive. But another market near bai ma, which is in the basement market called DI YI DA DAO.price there is much cheaper, and this market combines factory and retail shops, so if you want to find some factory for order, you can visit there.
Another area is called Shi San Hang.this area is very low price, but very crowdy, and usually only opens until 2 pm, should go there earlier.
If you want to wholesale jeans, then Sha He is better choice for you. There are many jeans with low price, and if want to find factory, Zeng cheng(增城) have many jean factory.

2. Shoes
For shoes, Zhan xi road has many plaza. But in these market, you cannot retail. Besides, the metropoleplaza is cheaper, and you can do both wholesale and retail

3. handbags and belt
for handbag market, you can visit Bai Yun leather market， but this market sells many copy things, like LV, CUCCI, etc, besides, it also have copy shoes, glasses, watches, belts, and usually the office products are better quality than those in the shops.
If you don’t want copy things, and want to buy cheaper price handbags, you can go to opposite side, there is a street selling cheaper handbags and suitcase.

4. Jewelry
one is called Xi Jiao most are silver and gold color jewelry, and another is Tai kang the price there is cheaper and have more colorful jewelries.

5. watch
in Zhan xi, there are three watches building, selling both copy and ordinary watches.

6. underwear and bra, stock
Gao di street near bei jing road, it’s the best choice for belt, underwear, bra and stock. For example, some belts there only about 2 rmb per piece

7. gift
Onelink Plaza, is quite famous for gift, here also can retail

8. cosmetic
For cosmetic market, one is Xing fa plaza, one is Mei bo city, you can find many copy cosmetic, perfume and wigs there .

For the best TIME in a day and best MONTHS in a year to see pandas: Giant Pandas give us an impression as lovely and cute for their unique appealing markings, but also a lazy bone due to they spend half of their time to sleep in a day.  Nobody want to go so far away to Chengdu but just see some sleeping pandas, right?So better to notice their time schedule: when are they eating and active, when are they sleeping!

In the breeding center, panda's first feeding time starts at 9:00am~9:30am, they keep eating untill 11:00am, then fall into sleep untill the second feeding time, 2:30pm~3:00pm.

So the best time to set off  from Chengdu downtown hotel is 8:00am~8:30am, around half hour drive to there just catch up their first feeding time. Or set off after lunch to be there at 3:00pm to see the awake pandas.

For the BEST MONTHS in a year to see pandas and the SURPRISE is waiting for you:

The first time everybody see the few days old giant panda must be surprised, is this the new born cub of giant panda?!  A tiny pink rat???

Giant pandas usually gave birth to cubs in July and August,  so when you arrive there at the right months then you can see the giant pandas in most age varies:

In late July: the 1 week old pandas, the 1 year old pandas, 2 years old pandas....

In early August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 year, 2 years....

In middle August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, 1 year...

In late August: 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, 40 days, 1 year...

In September: weeks, months, years...

In October: months, years...

THE 8 PICTURES BELOW  in front show giant panda at 8 different ages, in order：

1 day, 2 days, 1 week, 1 month, 40 days, 80 days, 90 days, half year old.

Tourists can look at them through a glass wall, photogragh without flash is allowed.

The last picture shows the new born cubs from the same year.